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CHEC-CESC Virtual Patient Challenge 2012-13

The CHEC-CESC Virtual Patient Challenge has concluded for 2012. To find out the winners please click here. Stay tuned for the next CHEC-CESC Virtual Patient Challenge.

The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) and Canada Health Infoway, are proud to announce the CHEC-CESC Virtual Patient Challenge 2012 as part of the AFMC-Infoway Physician in Training e-Health Curriculum and e-Learning initiative.

The focus of the challenge is on virtual patients that incorporate the use of electronic health records (EHRs) and other aspects of e-health to improve patient care. Below you will find the submission requirements including e-Health topics that must be incorporated in the case design, and the pedagogical and instructional case design criteria.

Eligibility: Medical Students from a Canadian Faculty of Medicine - undergraduate,graduate and post-graduate level. (Joint submissions between facultymembers and students will also be considered.)

Winners will be featured at the 2013 Canadian Conference on Medical Education in QuébecCity and will be recognized through letters sent to their deans and faculty advisors, and byhaving their cases published online and promoted widely.

Entry Details: Submit to ccontant@afmc.ca. The submission package must include a completed entry form with an electronic file or hyperlink to the virtual patient(s).

REQUIREMENTS

Case Content and Design

The virtual patients must include four key components – a medically accurate case scenario, solid pedagogical principles, effective integration of EHR and other components of e-health, and an innovative instructional case design. A detailed description of the requirements is included below.

A. Incorporate e-Health Topic(s)

The virtual patients must include one or two, but no more than two, e-health topics listed below.

iii. Collaborative practice, information transfer, patient safety risks therein, inter-professional and intra-professional team effectiveness, patient communication and personal health recordsCommunicate effectively with patients, team members and collaborative practitioners using information services for referral letters, consults and reports and other documents in transfer of care, with awareness of the patient safety risks of inadequate information transfer.

v. Decision support tools, evidence-based medicine (EBM) resources, reminders, integrating information from multiple sources, practice managementMake effective use of decision support tools and evidence-informed resources, integrating such information from multiple sources into effective point-of-care information practices, to improve both quality of care and efficient use of local practice and system-wide resources.

i.A faculty advisor is required to verify the medical accuracy of the case and should be included in the case

D. Other Considerations

i.All associated material must have copyright clearance and be cited/ referenced appropriately.

ii.Virtual patients are required to be accessible to learners and faculty members across the country. Submissions should be developed on open, accessible and free to use platform through a Creative Commons license (BY-NC-SA). Each virtual patient is to be designed as a secure, stand-alone electronic case. Cases cannot be proprietary or developed with external funding.

C. Medical Accuracy

i.A faculty advisor is required to verify the medical accuracy of the case and a statement must be included in the case

D. Other Considerationsi.All associated material must have copyright clearance and be cited/ referenced appropriately. ii.Virtual patients are required to be accessible to learners and faculty members across the country. Submissions should be developed on open, accessible and free to use platform through a Creative Commons license (BY-NC-SA). Each virtual patient is to be designed as a secure, stand-alone electronic case. Cases cannot be proprietary or developed with external funding.

JUDGING

A panel of faculty, student and e-health representatives will select the three winning cases using the Judging Criteria.

TIPS FOR GETTING STARTED

For access to all resources to help you get started on creating a virtual patient, please create a CHEC-CESC account.

Foundations for building a virtual patient – Cases by Shared Canadian Curriculum in Family Medicine* (*These cases are provided as samples of clinical scenarios that include associated learning objectives and follow up questions for the learner. They are not interactive cases.)

The competition was tight and all cases represent solid contributions to e-health and e-learning. All submissions to the CHEC-CESC Virtual Patient Challenge 2011-12 will be housed in the Virtual Patients Collaborative online. Interested parties are invited to explore the cases online and connect with authors for more information.